List of members of the European Parliament for the United Kingdom (1979–1984)

This is a list of the 81 members of the European Parliament for the United Kingdom in the 1979 to 1984 session.

List

Name	National party	EP Group	Constituency
Gordon Adam	Labour Party	SOC	Northumbria
Richard Balfe	Labour Party	SOC	London South Inner
Neil Balfour	Conservative Party	ED	Yorkshire North
Robert Battersby	Conservative Party	ED	Humberside
Peter Beazley	Conservative Party	ED	Bedfordshire South
Lord Bethell	Conservative Party	ED	London North West
Roland Boyes	Labour Party	SOC	Durham
Beata Brookes	Conservative Party	ED	Wales North
Janey Buchan	Labour Party	SOC	Glasgow
Richard Caborn	Labour Party	SOC	Sheffield
Barbara Castle	Labour Party	SOC	Greater Manchester North
Frederick Catherwood	Conservative Party	ED	Cambridgeshire
Ann Clwyd	Labour Party	SOC	Wales Mid & West
Ken Collins	Labour Party	SOC	Strathclyde East
Richard Cottrell	Conservative Party	ED	Bristol
David Curry	Conservative Party	ED	Essex North East
Ian Dalziel	Conservative Party	ED	Lothians
John de Courcy Ling	Conservative Party	ED	Midlands Central
Basil de Ferranti	Conservative Party	ED	Hampshire West
Marquess of Douro	Conservative Party	ED	Surrey
Baroness Elles	Conservative Party	ED	Thames Valley
Derek Enright	Labour Party	SOC	Leeds
Winifred Ewing	Scottish National Party	EPD	Highlands and Islands
Adam Fergusson	Conservative Party	ED	Strathclyde West
Norvela Forster	Conservative Party	ED	Birmingham South
Eric Forth	Conservative Party	ED	Birmingham North
Michael Gallagher	Labour Party /   SDP (Jan 1984)	SOC	Nottingham
Win Griffiths	Labour Party	SOC	Wales South
Lord Harmar-Nicholls	Conservative Party	ED	Greater Manchester South
David Harris	Conservative Party	ED	Cornwall & Plymouth
Gloria Hooper	Conservative Party	ED	Liverpool
William Hopper	Conservative Party	ED	Greater Manchester West
Brian Hord	Conservative Party	ED	London West
Paul Howell	Conservative Party	ED	Norfolk
John Hume	Social Democratic and Labour Party	SOC	Northern Ireland
Alasdair Hutton	Conservative Party	ED	South of Scotland
Christopher Jackson	Conservative Party	ED	Kent East
Robert V. Jackson	Conservative Party	ED	Upper Thames
Stanley Johnson	Conservative Party	ED	Wight & Hampshire East
Edward Kellett-Bowman	Conservative Party	ED	Lancashire East
Elaine Kellett-Bowman	Conservative Party	ED	Cumbria
Brian Key	Labour Party	SOC	Yorkshire South
Alfred Lomas	Labour Party	SOC	London North East
John Marshall	Conservative Party	ED	London North
Thomas Megahy	Labour Party	SOC	Yorkshire South West
James Moorhouse	Conservative Party	ED	London South
Robert Moreland	Conservative Party	ED	Staffordshire East
Bill Newton Dunn	Conservative Party	ED	Lincolnshire
Sir David Nicolson	Conservative Party	ED	London Central
Tom Normanton	Conservative Party	ED	Cheshire East
Lord O'Hagan	Conservative Party	ED	Devon
Ian Paisley	Democratic Unionist Party	NI	Northern Ireland
Ben Patterson	Conservative Party	ED	Kent West
Andrew Pearce	Conservative Party	ED	Cheshire West
Henry Plumb	Conservative Party	ED	Cotswolds
Derek Prag	Conservative Party	ED	Hertfordshire
Peter Price	Conservative Party	ED	Lancashire West
Christopher Prout	Conservative Party	ED	Salop and Stafford
James Provan	Conservative Party	ED	North East Scotland
John Purvis	Conservative Party	ED	Mid Scotland and Fife
Joyce Quin	Labour Party	SOC	Tyne South and Wear
Brandon Rhys-Williams	Conservative Party	ED	London South East
Shelagh Roberts	Conservative Party	ED	London South West
Allan Rogers	Labour Party	SOC	Wales South East
James Scott-Hopkins	Conservative Party	ED	Hereford & Worcester
Barry Seal	Labour Party	SOC	Yorkshire West
Madron Seligman	Conservative Party	ED	Sussex West
Dr. Alexander Sherlock	Conservative Party	ED	Essex South West
Richard Simmonds	Conservative Party	ED	Midlands West
Anthony Simpson	Conservative Party	ED	Northamptonshire
Tom Spencer	Conservative Party	ED	Derbyshire
James Spicer	Conservative Party	ED	Wessex
Jack Stewart-Clark	Conservative Party	ED	Sussex East
John Taylor	Ulster Unionist Party	ED	Northern Ireland
John Taylor	Conservative Party	ED	Midlands East
Frederick Tuckman	Conservative Party	ED	Leicester
Amédée Turner	Conservative Party	ED	Suffolk
Alan Tyrrell	Conservative Party	ED	London East
Peter Vanneck	Conservative Party	ED	Cleveland
Frederick Warner	Conservative Party	ED	Somerset
Michael Welsh	Conservative Party	ED	Lancashire Central

By-election

1979

• 20 September: London, South West—The Home Secretary announced on 11 July 1979 that Shelagh Roberts was disqualified from election due to her membership of the Occupational Pensions Board, which was an 'office of profit under the Crown'. She resigned from the board and was re-elected at the by-election.

Change of allegiance

• Michael Gallagher announced on 5 January 1984 that he had joined the Social Democratic Party.